Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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Now in second posiTion in The conTerence as The resulT oT Their deTeaT by Kazoo, The ScoTs meT Hillsdale aT The laTTer's home Tield To baTTle Tor he undispuTed posiTion oT runner-up in The conTerence. The ScoTs were unable To cope wiTh l-lillsdale's un- orThodox sTyle OT play and as a resulT, were rushed and passed OTT Their TeeT by a 20 To 6 score in Tavor oT The 'Dales. Alma knocked aT l-lillsdale's goal line a number oT Times, buT iT wasn'T unTil The remaining second oT The game ThaT a pass Trom Ken OTis To Bob Adams, neTTed The ScoTs Their only Touchdown. The Michigan Jayvees scored Their TirsT win oT The season when They deTeaTed The ScoTs I8 To O on hisToric old Ferry Field on The UniversiTy oT Michigan campus aT Ann Arbor. The game was played in very cold weaTher and snow, and ball handling was hard. Alma ThreaTened only once during The game, when They goT possession oT The ball on Their own 40-yardi lineg SnfiTh quick-kicked To lVlichigan's 4-yard line. The Jayvees punT came ouT To -Their own 28. Cn The second play aTTer This, ArT SmiTh carried The ball To The 16, buT The ScoTs bogged down and losT The ball on downs. WiTh only a Tew minuTes remaining To play, The ScoTs drove The ball Tor Three suc- cessive TirsT downs, buT were unable To geT inTo scoring disTance beTore The Tinal gun. AlThough The ScoTs ended up in second place in The M.l.A.A. conTerence sTandings, They made a Tar beTTer showing on The myThical all-conTerence Team by placing Tour men on iT. These Tour ouTsTanding players are CapTain John l3uTch GilberT, Tullback, Bob Devaney, leTT end, Cassius Lea, righT guard, and STan CaTer, leTT Tackle. GilberT was The unanimous selecTion aT his posiTion as was CaTer, who was recognized as The mosT ousTanding lineman in The comference. Devaney had liTTle Trouble in being se- lecTed as one oT The TWO wingmen, and Cash Lea was Torced To share his righT guafrd berTh wiTh an Albion player. lSToppeTTl. ArT SmiTh was The only ScoT To land on The Second Team. Devaney was chosen by his maTes To lead Them Through nexT year's grid campaign when They elecTed him capTain aT The TooTball banqueT.

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FRGSI-T FCDCDTBALL Back row: A. Russell, R. Richardson, G. Olsen, W. Wrege, F. Kain, J. Fookes. Middle row: Coach Ewer, G. Runkle, R. l-lanzel, J. True, A. Juhola, E. Ziem, S. Moran, W. Moran, J. Mead, Coach Macdonald. BoTTom row: F. Hill, B. Frier, T. Purdy, R, GinTher, S. Cicinelli, F. McMillan, D. Mole, G. Judd. AlThough They losT Three oT Their Tour games played, This year's Frosh FooTball squad, The largesT in many years, broughT To lighT some Tine Timber Tor nexT year's varsiTy eleven. Jesse W. Ewer acTed as coach Tor The TirsT year men. ln Their TirsT game, The green gridders Trimmed The l-lope Frosh, and Then bogged down To drop Two games To The sTrong CenTral STaTe Frosh and a nighT game To The Albion Frosh. Fred l-lill and Bob Richardson, producTs oT lasT year's Alma i-ligh's Six B. champions, gave The opposing Teams plenTy To worry abouT when They Tried circling Alma's ends. Arvo Juhola and Floyd McMillan held down The Tackle posTs, while Tom Purdy and Gerry BarneTT kepT The guard posTs inTacT. Ed Ziem was probably The ouTsTanding player on The Team aT his posT aT cenTer. ln The backifield, CapTain Dick GinTher, Gordy Olson, Wally Wrege, and Freddy Graham looked good. OTher numeral Win- ners Were John True, Bob Munger, Jimmy Fookes, George Judd, Francis Kain, Bill Frier, Bill Moran, STewarT Moran, ArT Russell, Sal Cicinelli, Don Mole, DeWiTT Davis, Bob l-lanzel, Jim Mead, and Gil Runkle. i l COACH JESSE EWER